Improvement in railway rail-chairs



lltir Sgam @anni @dan WILLIAM H. STAATS, OF CRESCENT, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF HIS RIGHT T() RUFUS LAPE AND CHARLES A. MCL-EOD; OF TROY, NEWYORK.

Letters Patent. No. 110,79?, aerea January 3, um.v

IMPROVEMENT IN RAlLwAv RAIL-CHAIRS.

'The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and' making part ofthe sanne.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Suus, of'Qrescent, in the county ofSaratoga and State of New York, have invented an Improved RailroadCha-ir; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to they accompanyingdrawing Aand to the letters of' reference marked thereon.

Draw-ing.' hFigure I is a perspective view of. my improved c air;

' Figure 2 is a sectionalelevation, taken on the lino zz of fig. 3; and.

Figure 3 is a cross-section, taken on the line y y of g. 1.

Similar letters' of reference are used in the designation of identicalparts in each of the' iiguresa This invention relates to railroadrail-chairs, and has for its object to secure the chair or clamps to therail'without passing bolts through the rails; also, to provide an easyor elastic surface upon which to rest the rails, said bed-plate or restbeing held firmly to and against the bottonil of the rail by the'side-chairs loiclampg and to this end- My invention consists in -theconstruction, connbination, and arrangement 'of the parts of which it iscomposed, all of which will be more fully described and set forth'in thedescription and claim which follows.

.To enable those skilled in the lart to which my invention appeitains tomake and apply the same, I will proceed to describe 'its constructionand opera.- tion.l

specification- In the annexed drawing forming a part of this the contourof the rails and the bed-plate upon which they Test,r as is very clearlyshown in iig. 3 of the drawing.

The base portions of the parts B B are in the form of vail-:inclinedplane which corresponds to the bev eled edges of the bed-plate O, sothat, as the bolts d d are tightened, the clamps B B will press 'thepart O snugly against the under surfaces of the rails A A.

'.Lhe'holt a passes through the clamps B B and scmicircular grooves inthe rails A` A, while the bolts d d also pass through the clamps in likegrooves in thebottom .of the rails and the upper surfaces of thebed-platcl With this device there is no drilling of holes through therails. Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire tov secure hyLetters Patent of the UnitedStates,lis-

The rails A.v A, resting upon the vbeveled elastic bed-plate O, said,parts being inclos'ed by the clamps B B, and securedby bolts, a d,inthe manner shown, substantially as described, and for the purpose setfortln I n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence' of two attesting witnesses this 14th day of September,1870.

W. H. SIAATS.

Witnesses Crus. M. AUSTIN, O. W. BOUGHTON.

